Don LEE, GWON Yool and HAN Ye-ri Wrap CHAMPION

The arm wrestling drama Champion with Don LEE (aka MA Dong-seok), GWON Yooland HAN Ye-ri wrapped production on December 17th in the Nonhyeon neighborhood in Seoul. Production took around nine weeks on the film, which was directed by KIM Yong-wan and will be di...

DETECTIVE K Team Returns for 2018 Threequel

The popular period sleuth series Detective K is set to return next year with its third installment, currently entitled Detective K 3. Stars KIM Myung-min and OH Dal-su and director KIM Sok-yun will all return while TV name KIM Ji-won will mark her first period...

LEE Jung-jin, KANG Ye-won and KIM Tae-hun on Board with TRICK

Production Begins on December 7th, to Be Released in the First Half of 2016 A suspense drama Trick is on board with LEE Jung-jin, KANG Ye-won and KIM Tae-hun, and begins production on December 7th. Trick depicts how a former star TV producer Seok-jin (LEE J...

Hyun-bin Sets COOPERATION as Next Project

New Action Blockbuster from Producer JK YOUN Superstar Hyun-bin has selected the North Korea-themed blockbuster Cooperation (literal title) as his next project. With sophomore director KIM Sung-hoon at the helm and hit filmmaker JK YOUN assuming producing dut...

Press Conference Held for THE HUNTRESSES

A press conference for The Huntresses as it awaits a Lunar New Year’s theatrical release was held at the Seoul, Wangshimni CGV on January 2nd. This Charlie’s Angels-inspired action comedy set during the Chosun Dynasty period stars HA Ji-won, KANG Ye-won and SO...

JUNG Woo-sung and LEE Beom-su Headline New Action Noir GOD'S TRICK

QUICK Director JO Bum-gu and Cast Already in Production New action noir God’s Trick, starring JUNG Woo-sung and LEE Beom-su, began shooting on August 26th. JO Bum-gu, whose filmography includes Quick (2011) and Three Fellas (2006), is directing the revenge f...

Korean films take over Fantasia, Osian’s-Cinefan

With at least a dozen selections currently screening at each festival, Korean cinema figures prominently in the line-ups at Montreal’s 16th Fantasia International Film Festival and New Dehli’s 12th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema. Fan...

Korea’s total box office dips 2.3%, but local films go up 9.9%

Korea’s box office in the first half of 2011 has dipped 2.3%. From January to June, theaters took in 68.3 million admissions and KW536.4bn (US$507.2m), down from the 69.76 million admissions and KW549.3bn (US$519.4m) in the same period of time in 2010. Last ...